I jumped ship from Twitter following the Musk takeover in 2022. Seeking an alternative, I joined Mastodon and didn’t look back. Since then, I’ve enjoyed many wonderful interactions and conversations; and I feel a bit sad at what Twitter turned into.
"We think that the benefits of being on X are now outweighed by the negatives and that resources could be better used promoting our journalism elsewhere."
I’m seeing a lot of people wondering how Elon knew.
Hours before the election was over, Musk was out there on X saying “Men are voting in record numbers” and that he and Trump were going to win because of it.
And I’m seeing people wonder how he knew. Saying it was because he saw some pictures of men in queues at voting site. Stuff like that. And I’m like…
People. For fuck’s sake. I’ve been telling you for years. He knew because they told him.
thanks for sharing! In case it's useful to someone I used a similar tool to create a website from my twitter archive, using Darius's tool and Github, I explain the process here: github.com/elduvelle/elduvelle…
"Harris wasn't too left or not left enough or even too female. The richest man in the world bought America. Please watch the whole thing" is what Randi Mayem says in her post on Threads.
"Ah yes, Twitter—or X. Whatever you call it, the social media site was Musk’s primary tool to elect Trump. In Bloomberg’s Tech Daily newsletter for November 7, Kurt Wagner writes that Musk “turned his feed into a Trump-inspired billboard for his more than 200 million followers,” that it “became a major source of anti-immigrant conspiracy theories,” that Musk “re-shared posts from the former president’s supporters, not all of them accurate,” and that Musk turned X into “a much more powerful version of Truth Social.”"
Jetzt wäre der richtige Zeitpunkt, um Twitter endgültig den Rücken zu kehren - nicht zurückzukehren. Trump/Vance drohen schon mit Entzug von NATO-Schutz, wenn Hassrede-Filter via DSA in Europa durchgesetzt werden. Sie wollen ungestört mit Fake-News manipulieren.
If you’ve just left Twitter/X welcome! You’ve come to the right place.
There is no algorithm here so we encourage lots of following and “retweeting”. You can also follow #hashtags as well.
Posts are sometimes called toots. Retweets are sometimes called boosts or retoots.
If you want people to follow you, be sure to have a profile picture, something in your description about you, and some engagement: posts, comments, stars, boosts. People also usually do a post that is an introduction to them (be sure to use a hashtag, #introduction) and it can help to pin that to your profile so people can boost it.
One thing we always try to do is add alt text to images for multiple reasons, you can read about that here: wetdry.world/@ipg/113449765700…
People have added additional tips in the comments b
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If you’ve just left Twitter/X welcome! You’ve come to the right place.
There is no algorithm here so we encourage lots of following and “retweeting”. You can also follow #hashtags as well.
Posts are sometimes called toots. Retweets are sometimes called boosts or retoots.
If you want people to follow you, be sure to have a profile picture, something in your description about you, and some engagement: posts, comments, stars, boosts. People also usually do a post that is an introduction to them (be sure to use a hashtag, #introduction) and it can help to pin that to your profile so people can boost it.
One thing we always try to do is add alt text to images for multiple reasons, you can read about that here: wetdry.world/@ipg/113449765700…
People have added additional tips in the comments below which you may want to check out.
Many of us (all?) are grieving the US election now so comedy is appreciated.
It took longer, than I expected, but here we are: it seems like this account now brings continuously more #traffic to heise.de than #X (#Twitter) in its entirety, although it only has ¼ of the follower number (and many of them don't seem to be active anymore). I'll prepare some graphs after the weekend.
Vorerst ist das hier der offizielle Mastodon-Account von heise online.
Wird jetzt erst einmal händisch befüllt, aber wir haben schon weitergehende Pläne und wollen hier mehr machen.
Musk is now participating in top level foreign policy phone calls alongside Trump. Twitter needs to be regarded as the propaganda arm of whatever regime Trump wants to set up.
We can assume Musk will tweak Twitter's closed source algorithms to favour whatever viewpoint and misinformation that suits Trump's aims.
If you stay on Twitter, you are being exposed to this misinformation and you are encouraging your followers to be exposed to it too.
There are now plenty of other options, why are people who have a choice still on Twitter?
If you want to remove your X account but are worried that someone might register your username later, do this:
1. Open 2 different browsers in their private windows 2. In the first browser: Log in to your Twitter account. 3. In the second browser, go through the account creation process, add something like "Deactivated" as a name. Skip everything else. 4. On both: Navigate to Settings and privacy. 5. Under Your account, select Account information. 6. Update your Username to something different. 7. Save the changes. 8. Immediately rename the other "Deactivated" user name to your own username. 9. Take a full data backup 10. Continue on deactivating the real now renamed user.
By altering your username and email, your original handle becomes available for immediate use so you can register it to yourself as an "empty shell" account.
I just proofed these instructions working by finally deactivating my account. Haven't posted anything this year.
I will not spend any thought ever again to Truth Social, Gab, X and dark onion websites. They
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If you want to remove your X account but are worried that someone might register your username later, do this:
1. Open 2 different browsers in their private windows 2. In the first browser: Log in to your Twitter account. 3. In the second browser, go through the account creation process, add something like "Deactivated" as a name. Skip everything else. 4. On both: Navigate to Settings and privacy. 5. Under Your account, select Account information. 6. Update your Username to something different. 7. Save the changes. 8. Immediately rename the other "Deactivated" user name to your own username. 9. Take a full data backup 10. Continue on deactivating the real now renamed user.
By altering your username and email, your original handle becomes available for immediate use so you can register it to yourself as an "empty shell" account.
I just proofed these instructions working by finally deactivating my account. Haven't posted anything this year.
I will not spend any thought ever again to Truth Social, Gab, X and dark onion websites. They are all the same - not healthy for anyone. Please leave now.
More or less stopped using X in 2022, but now that I have not made a single update for over a year, I have finalized my statement: X finally deleted, for good. I will not support X, Gab, Truth Social or any other criminally extremist alt-tech social media.
Robert #Habeck sagte vor einigen Jahren, sein Rückzug von #Twitter war eine der weisesten Entscheidungen, die er in seinem Leben getroffen hat. Was ist dann seine heutige Rückkehr zu Twitter? Eine der dümmsten Entscheidung, die er in seinem Leben getroffen hat? x.com/roberthabeck/status/1854…
I joined Twitter in 2008, making 7,500 posts through the years. I deactivated my X account today.
I greatly curtailed my usage of the platform since November 2023, when my employer @Flipboard pulled back from engagement. And I haven't posted since April but kept it open for work reasons (to monitor news, etc.).
Why today? The U.S. election made clear how many of my fellow Americans live entirely in "alternative facts" ecosystems. I no longer wish to participate in such a platform — so rife with unchecked misinformation and disinformation ... basically an outrage machine where the algorithm rewards lies and conspiracy theories.
If you're still on X, why?
I screenshot my profile for posterity. And here's also Flipboard's 2023 announcement.
Using billionaires' platforms will not save us anymore.
They have full control to silence your voices there. Using it only means more power to them. Leave their control and join The Resistance.
To build powerful communities that will be able to resist the oppression and injustice coming up soon, we need to fully move towards independent platforms.
"Independent analysts such as Edison Research said in March that X’s usage in the United States dropped 30 percent since last year. Fidelity this month estimated that X’s value has plunged by about 80 percent since Musk’s takeover."
In an age of #fake news, #propaganda, #maga, #Twitter #bots and Russian #troll factories, we actually need trustworthy journalism. I must once again explicitly point out that the principle of "trust nobody" does not mean no longer believing official sources and only consuming unfiltered news from Russian-controlled #Telegram channels and basing your world view on them.
"Trust nobody but don't stop thinking - if you belive the earth is flat you are far beyond a border no one should pass!"
I feel bad for Uerica, Sylvia, Nicole, Constance, Evangeline, Annie, Celia, Heather, Aggie, Georgie, Colleen, Katie, Melanie and Deborah. Why do parents give their girls first names the same as their last? OH, they're bots making social media worse. Got it.
Elon #Musk is already the globally most influential fascist. (No, I'm not talking just about #X, formerly #Twitter.)
For those wondering about #ElonMusk's unprecedented power in satellites 🛰 and mobile internet-based communications, here is the #Starlink background story again (via #NYT):
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Update:
#Musk background story (no paywall, #NewYorker):
It features #PulitzerPrice-winning journalist #RonanFarrow, who joined forces with other journalists:
https://archive.
